Classpath error with Ant task

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I can create an EAR file successfully on my local machine using:

ant.taskdef(name: "serviceDeploy", classname:"com.ibm.websphere.ant.tasks.ServiceDeployTask") {
  classpath {
    fileset(dir: "wasHome/plugins", includes "com.ibm.soacore.runtime.jar")
  }
}

ant.serviceDeploy(...)

However, when my Gradle script is run from Jenkins, I see:

java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/xml/serialize/OutputFormat
                                ...
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.xml.serialize.OutputFormat

In my dependencies block, I’ve declared the dependency for the xercesImpl jar, and when I print the classpath for dependencies, I can see the xercesImpl jar. How can I determine the exact error and the solution for this problem?

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I’m assuming the class is not in the jar. If you unzip com.ibm.soacore.runtime.jar and look inside it, is there a file at the path org/apache/xml/serialize/OutputFormat.class?

I’m guessing that you need to add extra jars (ie the transitive dependencies of com.ibm.soacore.runtime.jar) to the classpath